Chapter XVIII: Part II: The Psychology of the Neuroses

Personally, I am more and more convinced that the cure for
sentiment, as for all the weakened forms of strong things, is
not to refuse to feel it, but to get to feel _more_ in it. This
seems to me to make the whole difference between a true and a
false ‘asceticism.’ The false goes for getting rid of what one
is afraid of; the true goes for using it and making it serve.
The one empties, the other fills; the one abstracts, the other
concentrates. Don’t you think half the troubles of life come from
being wrongly _afraid_ of things--especially afraid of oneself?
(February, 1890.)

Richard Lewis Nettleship.